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Half a world away, staring at a bunch of sawed-off shotguns, Kyle Israel tried to decipher the demands of the men holding them. He couldn't speak Russian but somehow sensed the bandits, as he called them, weren't going to hurt anyone. They walked calmly into the newly leased office in downtown Moscow and told Israel and a handful of others working there to leave. "There was no, 'Get on the ground! Put your hands up!'" the former UCF quarterback said. "It was more, 'Hey, everybody out.' I even had time to get my computer and backpack." He was living in a $4 million apartment, about 300 yards from the U.S. Embassy and a 10-minute walk...

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